hey boy don’t kill yourself. green’s dictionary of slang is available online and allows you to explore 500 years of english vulgarity. you can search by part of speech, source, time period, etymology, and usage. there’s a whole category for gay slang. they even have specific citations listed so you can see the exact context for yourself. boy did you know that in 1927 “to kneel at the altar” was slang for “to sodomize”
some other hits:
Princess: an effeminate and relatively youthful male homosexual or lesbian (1931-4)
Also a lot of early 20th century vulgarity is recorded in Letter from My Father, which is a collection of letters published by a man who’s dad was, in short, a major slut and human disaster who wrote about his sex life for his son. It’s insane. You can find copies of it online & it’s a wild fucking read (literally!) and I think a really interesting look at the life of a person who goes against our stereotypes of what people in the past were “supposed” to be like.
Anyways feel free to add y'all’s favs to this post. & if you use this for gay historical fanfic please share with the class
note for writers: these are dated to the first time they were recorded, not necessarily to their first use. I imagine for many of these, they came about naturally through spoken language before they were written down anywhere. This is especially true of more underground slang because it’s probably being recorded (in ways we still have) the least. So if you wanna use a term but it’s a little off date-wise, give yourself some wiggle room.
also gonna take this moment to highlight two more i found recently:
Best boy: a sweetheart, a boyfriend, a husband. (1893) [w the obvious equivalent term 'best girl’]
Honeydripper or honeydrips: a sexual partner (1917)
Like. Honeydripper?????? That’s so horny I can’t stop thinking about it. We need to bring THAT back
I know we are all like “people in caveman times would drill holes in their head to relieve headaches” andwe go oh that’s so stupid that’s so dumb but like. then I get a headache and I’m like.ooooh I get it I get it. Grug prepare the drill.
officially decided that anyone who tries to divide the lgbt community is a fed. i dont care if you’re not actually a fed, if you’re causing infighting in a minority community then you’re a fed who just isnt getting paid to be one. either apply for a job at the CIA or shut the fuck up
some people understood this post. some people revealed themselves to be feds
The only thing more pathetic than a paid fed is a chump doing a fed’s job for free
How is bnha anime of the decade…… they aren’t even anime of the hour of the minute of the second
The notes on this post were so toxic that staff just axed em
1969………
Yes, when the original post is deleted from the server (not just the blog, but the Tumblr servers), there is no root post for notes to be added onto, and also no root post for time to be counted from, so it starts from zero. Most computer operating systems use Unix, which was launched in 1971 with t.he epoch date of midnight on January 1, 1970 as 1. Therefore zero is one second behind that date: December 31, 1969. Also, very unfortunately, this also means nobody except you and anyone you reblog it to will see this explanation, as you cannot open the notes to see comments when there are no notes.
I think the surest disproof of all this “Tumblr’s aging userbase” stuff is how deeply uncomfortable the community is with acknowledging that people over thirty fuck.
huh? the tumblr I’m familiar with is crazy about old man yaoi and milfs and suchlike
Yeah, and then you look up the blorbos comprising the “old man yaoi” they’re gushing about and it turns out the oldest party involved is 28.
“Old man yaoi” and it’s about some elfy fuck who’s ostensibly 600 years old but looks like this:
(Also, it’s very funny when folks in the notes go “I think it’s just you, OP”, then proceed to cite as evidence the fact that their dash is full of House/Wilson or Harry Du Bois/Kim Kitsuragi smut. These are men in their early to mid forties. You’re straying a whole decade outside of Tumblr’s comfort zone – how daring!)
okay so i finished checking if we were friends in every universe and, uh, it turns out we’re only friends in 6 of them. but look, i need you to understand these universes vary like crazy, okay? like 6 is actually insanely high, like way higher than most. and one of those is the universe where i accidentally killed the actor who played Dipsy from Teletubbies when i was 7 and my life went completely differently as a result. and we still ended up friends! also you were a girl in that universe for some reason. what? oh, uh, yeah, you were cute as hell. like really cute. did you just fucking giggle
Every time that “reading my own fic then realising I have to write it to see how it ends” post crosses my dash I go hehehe. But now I’m going through that with the fic I’m working on. Needless to say, it’s not hehehe.
Every time that “reading my own fic then realising I have to write it to see how it ends” post crosses my dash I go hehehe. But now I’m going through that with the fic I’m working on. Needless to say, it’s not hehehe.
“goddess” “matriarchy” “female wisdom” girl your civic rights
“But I didn’t and still don’t like making a cult of women’s knowledge, preening ourselves on knowing things men don’t know, women’s deep irrational wisdom, women’s instinctive knowledge of Nature, and so on. All that all too often merely reinforces the masculinist idea of women as primitive and inferior – women’s knowledge as elementary, primitive, always down below at the dark roots, while men get to cultivate and own the flowers and crops that come up into the light. But why should women keep talking baby talk while men get to grow up? Why should women feel blindly while men get to think?”
“goddess” “matriarchy” “female wisdom” girl your civic rights
“But I didn’t and still don’t like making a cult of women’s knowledge, preening ourselves on knowing things men don’t know, women’s deep irrational wisdom, women’s instinctive knowledge of Nature, and so on. All that all too often merely reinforces the masculinist idea of women as primitive and inferior – women’s knowledge as elementary, primitive, always down below at the dark roots, while men get to cultivate and own the flowers and crops that come up into the light. But why should women keep talking baby talk while men get to grow up? Why should women feel blindly while men get to think?”
“Nobody’s going to want to sit on high-speed rail for fifteen hours to get from New York City to LA.”
Me. I will sit on high-speed rail for fifteen hours. I’ll sit on it for days. I’ll write and read and nap and eat and then do it all over again. I’ll stare out the windows and see America from ground level and not have to drive. I’ll see the Rockies and the deserts and cornfields and the Mississippi River and your house and yours and yours too. I’ll make up stories in my head about the small towns I see as we go along. I’ll see the states I’ve yet to see because driving or flying there is a fucking slog and expensive to boot. I’ll enjoy the ride as much as the destination. And then I’ll do it all over again to come the fuck home.
Me getting slammed with notifications on this post in particular:
Americans will drive 15 hours, why the hell wouldn’t we take a 15 hour train ride.
God, I’d love to be hired to drive that if it’s built.
Right now, a trip between New York Penn Station and Union Station in Los Angeles takes 41 hours by car. Assuming the average speed is about 60 mph, that’s still nearly 2 days to do the 2,791 miles between the two stations.
Imagine if we specifically built one HSR route between those two stations. To do that trip in 15 hours, you’d need a trainset that could go on average 186 mph for the majority of the trip - and guess what? We already have those, just not in the US! As an example, the E5 and H5 Shinkansen trainsets can max out at 200 mph. So this timeframe is actually 100% doable. The hardest part would be actually getting the funding and convincing Americans to get on board.
idk what trans person needs to hear this but you don’t need to change your personality to change your presentation. you can start looking super masc and still be the same person. you can start looking fem and be the same person. you don’t need to have any specific personality or interests or roles to be masc/fem you can just be you.
yes, and also: many people may assume that your personality has changed just because your presentation has changed, so be prepared for this - we were accused of “changing your walk to what you think is a more feminine one” when what actually happened was we stopped trying to perform manly movements, and what was left was our natural way of moving - we’d literally become more ourselves but our friends were used to the masks
My name is Casey Jones. I’m just an American in a land overrun by roaming monsters called The Terrorists. This land is protected by rulers called Presidents, each descended from a noble Founder House.
One time, during a blood test, the results showed that I was one of them. I was an Elite. I was a President.
Now forced to attend the Presidential Academy of Defense, I am taught by instructors Patton and McArt, as I learn to harness my Presidential Power. Will I be able to survive with…. The Blood of Washington?
Featuring: Enemies to lovers, villain relationships, 🌶️🌶️🌶️, Eaglecore aesthetics, Deadly War Academy, morally grey sigma heroes, and an intriguing new feminist take on American Mythology.
My name is Casey Jones. I’m just an American in a land overrun by roaming monsters called The Terrorists. This land is protected by rulers called Presidents, each descended from a noble Founder House.
One time, during a blood test, the results showed that I was one of them. I was an Elite. I was a President.
Now forced to attend the Presidential Academy of Defense, I am taught by instructors Patton and McArt, as I learn to harness my Presidential Power. Will I be able to survive with…. The Blood of Washington?
Featuring: Enemies to lovers, villain relationships, 🌶️🌶️🌶️, Eaglecore aesthetics, Deadly War Academy, morally grey sigma heroes, and an intriguing new feminist take on American Mythology.
My name is Casey Jones. I’m just an American in a land overrun by roaming monsters called The Terrorists. This land is protected by rulers called Presidents, each descended from a noble Founder House.
One time, during a blood test, the results showed that I was one of them. I was an Elite. I was a President.
Now forced to attend the Presidential Academy of Defense, I am taught by instructors Patton and McArt, as I learn to harness my Presidential Power. Will I be able to survive with…. The Blood of Washington?
Featuring: Enemies to lovers, villain relationships, 🌶️🌶️🌶️, Eaglecore aesthetics, Deadly War Academy, morally grey sigma heroes, and an intriguing new feminist take on American Mythology.
My name is Casey Jones. I’m just an American in a land overrun by roaming monsters called The Terrorists. This land is protected by rulers called Presidents, each descended from a noble Founder House.
One time, during a blood test, the results showed that I was one of them. I was an Elite. I was a President.
Now forced to attend the Presidential Academy of Defense, I am taught by instructors Patton and McArt, as I learn to harness my Presidential Power. Will I be able to survive with…. The Blood of Washington?
Featuring: Enemies to lovers, villain relationships, 🌶️🌶️🌶️, Eaglecore aesthetics, Deadly War Academy, morally grey sigma heroes, and an intriguing new feminist take on American Mythology.
an excuse to share one of my favourite parts of the spotted hyena wikipedia page
ALT
So you’re saying hyenas are fully befriendable but just too powerful for human society to contain or be trusted with. That if they feel like going outside they will not wait like a dog for a human to assist them, but will simply bite your house open.
i dont care about validity i care about my civil rights
“can you be trans without dysphoria” “can you be an aromantic lesbian” “can bisexuals only date one gender” i literally do not care. in what states and countries are we protected from discrimination.
yo so theres this korean news channel i watch that has cute animal videos, today it freaking posted a vid about Chill guy! Have no idea what they’re saying but chill guy is taking off over there
yeah, he’s pretty huge in south Korea rn, out of all places and I love it, ive seen a lot of cute stuff out of there. I watched this entire video with 0 understanding/context/translation, all I know is theyre debating what animal he is 😃
![Although easily tamed, spotted hyenas are exceedingly difficult to house train,[176] and can be destructive; a captive, otherwise perfectly tame, specimen in the Tower of London managed to tear an 8-foot (2.4 m) long plank nailed to its recently repaired enclosure floor with no apparent effort.[177] During the research leading to the composition of his monograph The Spotted Hyena: A Study of Predation and Social Behavior, Hans Kruuk kept a tame hyena he named Solomon.[106] Kruuk found Solomon's company so congenial, he would have kept him, but Solomon had an insatiable taste for "cheese in the bar of the tourist lounge and bacon off the Chief Park Warden's breakfast table", and no door could hold him back, so Solomon was obliged to live out his days in the Edinburgh Zoo.[178]](../media/2463131306b68cd3659c8ca4742d59d636444938.png)
